diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c65d34042..44015c2d9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ cssselect
 feedparser==5.2.1
 geonamescache==0.20
 html5lib
-lxml~=4.0
+lxml~=4.6
 python-dateutil==2.8.1
 requests>=2.20.0
 selenium==4.0.0-alpha-6